Dr, Eric Adjei Boadu is a Lecturer with the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Dr. Boadu is a result-oriented Institute for Healthcare Improvement (USA) trained Improvement Advisor, Demographer, Teacher, Analyst, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, and Project Management Professional with over a decade of experience in designing, monitoring, and managing various community and donor-funded development initiatives in Ghana and beyond. As a lecturer, he has supervised theses of more than thirty-six (36) postgraduate students from Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, the Department of Health Policy, Management and Economics of the School of Public Health (SPH), at the College of Health Sciences, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana as well as at the Adventist University of Africa in Kenya. He has also supervised over thirty (30) theses of the medical students at the School of Community Health, KNUST and has served as internal examiner for a number of both undergraduate and postgraduate students of KNUST.

At the national and international levels, Dr. Boadu has particularly worked as a Regional Coordinator, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Quality Improvement Advisor and Specialists with Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP) focusing on maternal development and child welfare community level projects, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation under the Project Fives Alive! maternal and child quality improvement initiatives as well as the USAID/University Research Co. LLC-Systems for Health Project in Ghana. He has provided technical advice and training to frontline health staff of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation in Sierra Leone under the USAID funded Momentum Country and Global Leadership (MCGL) project using quality improvement (QI) methodologies. 

Dr. Boadu has proven strengths in meeting goals and producing bottom-line-oriented team efforts through excellent interpersonal, motivational, and communication skills. He provides hands-on experience with project design, planning, management and evaluation, proposal and report writing, community mobilization, workshop facilitation, and capacity development for social empowerment and participatory deliberations. He has worked with Prof. Emmanuel Nakua on projects including, URC-USAID (Redefining Primary Health Care for Quality Healthcare Delivery Towards Universal Health Coverage in Western Region, Ghana (Quality for Health -UHC Ghana), AFREAhealth (Developing an Interprofessional Operational Manual to improve Team-Based Respectful and Dignified Maternal Care In Ghana) and also worked with Prof. Ellis Owusu-Dabo (the Principal Investigator) for Mastercard Foundation Project as a monitoring and evaluation officer.

Dr. Boadu's research interests include the interrelationship between population variables and Development, Adolescent, Child and Reproductive Health, Climate change/variability and safety issues.

Dr. Eric Adjei Boadu received his PhD (Population Studies) from University of Ghana; Mphil, Special and Genral Diploma (Demography) from Cairo Demographic Centre (CDC), Cairo-Egypt; BA(Hons) from University of Ghana and Certificate in Improvement Advisor from the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI)-USA.

ERIC ADJEI BOADU, PhD

Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Private Mail Bag, University Post Office, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana

E-mails : eric.boadu@knust.edu.gh,  ericusbua@yahoo.com          Phone : +233 244068999